"independent creations." He visited Brazil in 1865 with a corps of assistants, when The Agassiz, Elizabeth C., and Agassiz, Alexander.-SEASIDE STUDIES [9] IN NATURAL HISTORY. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1865. 8vo. Cloth. 186 Illust. Index, 2 col. 154-5. The illustrations are incorporated with the text, and were, with very few excep- tions, taken from nature by Mr. Agassiz. At the end is a "Systematic Table of the Agnel, H. R. [Chess].—THE BOOK OF CHESS: containing the Rudi- [10] ments of the Game, and Elementary Analyses of the most popular openings exemplified in Games actually played by the Greatest Masters; including Staunton's Analysis of the King's and Queen's Gambits, numerous positions and prob- lems on Diagrams, both original and selected: Also, a Series of Chess Tales, with illustrations engraved from original de- signs: The whole extracted and translated from the best. sources. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1856. ... The book contains four Tales, with an Illustration to each. I. The Monkey and the Gascon Chess Knight II. How a World was Won: or a Game of Chess in 1492 p. 189. 293. Ahn, F. [Dutch].-A NEW PRACTICAL GRAMMAR OF THE DUTCH Ahn, F. [German].-AHN'S NEW PRACTICAL AND EASY METHOD [12] OF LEARNING THE GERMAN LANGUAGE, WITH PRONUNCIATION, by J. C. Oehlschlager. Revised Edition. First Course. Practical Part. New York: E. Steiger. 1873. 8vo. Mo- Ainger, Alfred.-LAMB, CHARLES. See English Men of Letters. À Kempis, Saint Thomas (1380-1471).—IMITATION OF Christ. [13] From the Latin by Payne, with an Introductory Essay by Thomas Chalmers, D.D. Edited by Howard Malcom, D.D. New Edition, with a Life of the Author by C. Ullmann, D.D. Boston: Gould and Lincoln. 1863. 8vo. Morocco, edges ... The text is a reprint from Payne-after a new collation with a Latin copy of the It is, however, not a complete translation, for the author "felt himself at full liberty "to expunge but not authorized to add or alter," and so far it is an improvement on À Kempis, Saint Thomas. [L'Imitation.] IV LIVRES DE L'IMI- [14] TATION DE IESVS-CHRIST qu'aucuns attribuent à Iessen, d'au- tres à Gerson, & d'autres à Thomas à Kempis, fidellement traduits. Nouuellement mis en François par M. R. G. A. Et reueu par le mesme Autheur en ceste derniere Edition. A Paris chez Nicholas Gasse, au Mont St. Hilaire près la Court D'Albret. 1626. Avec Approbation. Paris: L. Curmer. 1856-58. 2 vols. Impl. 8vo. Morocco extra, ... This is a magnificent edition of the text of 1626 from Marillac's edition. Each page has a border copied from some ancient manuscript, the facsimiles and engravings being collected from upwards of 360 manuscripts executed between the sixth and nine- The first volume contains after half-title and title a Preface (pp. i.-xii.); then the Text with a separate title and half-title (pp. 1-400) and a Table of Contents (pp. The frontispiece and borders are admirably executed in chromolithography by Le They are (1) Louis XIV. at prayers; (2) Anne of Brittany praying, accompanied taste of some early illuminators was. Examples will be found both in the last-mentioned instance and on pages 276 and 277, where the text is printed in letters of gold on a bright red ground. These last are taken from a Sacramentary of Pope Gregory the Fourth at the beginning of the ninth century found in a convent near Constance and now preserved at Heidelberg. Vol. II. is practically a Supplement. It contains (28 pages) an account by the Abbé Delaunay of the Presumed Authors of the Imitation and is illustrated with portraits of John Gersen (thirteenth century), John Gerson (1363-1429), and Saint Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), also of Michel de Marillac (1563–1632), whose edition has been followed in this work. It has also a "Histoire de l'Ornementation des Manuscrits par Mr. Ferdinand "Denis," the librarian of Ste. Geneviève at Paris, published 1857. It is very fully illustrated with "letters” and other examples of the illuminated manuscripts described in the Essay, (143 pages.) The volume closes with Tables (1) of the Manuscripts referred to in the "Notice" or Essay by Mr. Denis and reproduced in the Imitation; and (2) a table giving in respect of every page the name of the designer, the chromo-engraver, and the reference to the manuscript from which the illustration is taken. By way of borders to this last index are given the figures of Jollat, Beham, and Holbein from their Dances of Death. The 53 principal wood engravings are Holbein's celebrated figures from his Triomphe de la Mort. The smaller subjects, in which two personages only are represented, are taken from Simon Vostre's Dance of Death in his Book of the Hours; and the four designs of pastoral scenes on the second and third pages of the index are from the same work. The two figures of "Marguerite" and the "Woman" immediately following Holbein's Dance are after Hans Beham The Hurdy-gurdy player," the "Painter," the "Blind man," and the "Cook" are from the "Danse de Basle de Merian;" that of "the Plague 1679" is an engraving of the seventeenth century, in which the woman who is seated at the foot of the tree represents the town of Vienna which was scourged in 1679 with a plague introduced from Turkey; the remaining two, “the Moorish King” and “the Author,” are from the Dance of Death of Garnier of Troyes. Albinus, Petrus.-TREATISE ON FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND UNKNOWN ISLANDS. See Bibliotheca Curiosa (Vol. XVI.).(a) Albizzi, R. P. Bartholomew degli.-OPUS. AUREE & INEXPLICA[15] BILIS BONITATIS & CONTINENTIE. Conformitatū scilicet vite Beati Frā. ad vită d. nri Jesu xpi. | Mediolani [Milan]: Zanotus Castilione. 1513. Folio. Boards, vellum back. Index, 22 pp. a. t. This was purchased in 1887, and previously passed through the Pinelli Auction, and belonged (1789) to Mr. Wodhull. It is a scarce book, and a previous owner marked on the fly-leaf "Editio secunda rarissima." The work gave great offence to the Reformers, and in 1550 Richard Grafton published an Answer, entitled "The Alcaron of barefote Friers, that is to say, an Heape "or number of the blasphemous and tryfling Doctrines of the wounded Jdole Saint "Frances taken out of the Boke of his Rules called in Latine Liber Conformitatum." A second answer was published in 1679, entitled "The Alcoran of the Franciscans or a Sink of Lyes and Blasphemies collected out of a blasphemous Book belonging to "that Order called 'The Book of the Conformites,' with the Epistles of Dr. Martin "Luthur and Erasmus Alberus detecting the same." An earlier copy was printed at Milan by Gotardus Ponticus, 1510. Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888).—Sonnets anD CANZONETS. [16] With Portrait and Autograph. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1882. 8vo. Cloth, top edges gilt. ... This is No. 19 of a limited edition of 50 copies. It has a eulogistic Preface (pp. 5-10) and an Essay on "The Sonnet and the Canzonet" (pp. 13-35), by F. B. Sanborn, of Concord. Mr. Sanborn ingenuously remarks that Mr. Alcott has "written with little uniformity "in the order and number of his rhymes." He might have added, or of rhymes at all —e. g., "hours" and "ours" (Proem), "beautiful" and "wonderful" (p. 85), et sim. pass. In Sonnet XXI., line I rhymes with nothing, and keeps a cold companionship with line 8, also unrhymed. They are 14-lined poems—not sonnets. Mr. Alcott was an American teacher and philosopher-first in Connecticut, then in Boston, and lastly in Concord. The Sonnets and Poems are given under numbers only, without any titles. Most of them are addresses to authors or persons of note, and this edition is accompanied by a Portrait and Autograph of the Author and 22 photographs of the persons "sonnetized," including Dr. Wm. H. Furness, Dr. Channing, Emerson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Thoreau, Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Garfield, etc. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836- ).-FRIAR JEROME'S BEAUTI[17] FUL BOOK selected from Cloth of Gold and Flower and Thorn. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1881. I2mo. Half morocco, top edges gilt. There are eleven other pieces included in the volume. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.-XXXVI LYRICS AND XII SONNETS [18] selected from Cloth of Gold and Flower and Thorn. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1881. I 2mo. Half morocco, top edges gilt. Alexander, James W., D.D.-DISCOURSES on Common Topics of [19] Christian Faith and Practice. New York: Charles Scribner. 1858. 8vo. Cloth. . A series of twenty sermons preached between 1848 and 1858. In 1848, 2; 1849, 1; 1850, 1; 1852, 3; 1853, 1; 1854, 3; 1855, 3; 1857, 1; and 1858, 5. Alger, William Rounseville.-CRITICAL, A, HISTORY of the Doc[20] trine of a Future Life. With a complete Bibliography of the Subject. Philadelphia: George W. Childs. 1864. 8vo. Half morocco, top edges gilt. 4 Indexes: 2 col. 663–676; 3 col. 877-907; 2 col. 908-913; and 2 col. 914. ... The Work consists of Prefatory matter and 661 pp. To this is added, by way of Appendix: Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life, or A Catalogue of Works relating to the Nature, Origin, and Destiny of the Soul. The Titles classified and arranged chronologically, with Notes, and Indexes of Authors and Subjects. By Ezra Abbot. This Appendix consists of Preface (679–685) and "Classification," under the three divisions of the Nature, Origin, and Destiny of the Soul (686-687). Class I. includes Works numbered 1 to 386 g; Class II. 387 to 540 a; and Class III. 541 to 4664. Then follow, Appendix I., a List of Works (4665-4705) on Modern “Spiritualism,” or Spiritism, Ghosts, etc.; Appendix II. (4706–4894) Works on the Nature, Origin, and Destiny of the Souls of Brutes; Addenda et Corrigenda (pp. 874876); and Indexes. Alison, Sir Archibald, Bart. (1792-1867).—HISTORY OF EUROPE [21] from the Commencement of the French Revolution [1774] to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. Tenth Edition, with Portraits. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. 1860. 14 vols. 8vo. Calf, marbled edges. Index, 2 col. vol. xiv. 315-644. This Edition was published in 1860; the first volume of the Work was originally published in 1839. It is written by an "Ultra-Conservative" and naturally partakes of his political views, but its high value has never been seriously disputed. One feature was to set forth the words of men at great moments, wherever possible, in their own words without paraphrase or abridgment. Each volume has at the commencement a very full analytical “Table of Contents," giving the catchword Contents of each chapter, paragraph by paragraph, which are repeated in the margins of the Text. There is a series of 22 excellent Portraits, each volume having from one to three engravings. A List of Authorities, with the abbreviations used in the work, is given Vol. I. xxxiii.-xlvi. Alison, Sir Archibald, Bart.-HISTORY OF EUROPE from the Fall [22] of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in 1852. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. 1854-1859. 9 vols. 8vo. Calf, marbled edges. Index, 2 col. vol. xxiii. 1-319. ... This is a supplementary History to that of Europe from 1774 to 1815. One feature of it differs from the previous History in introducing an account of the Literature, |